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ATLANTA, TUESDAY, A FUJI. 14, 1879.
Clou up!” exclaim* a Grant organ.
If Ihii appeal ia addressed to the Euro
pean free-Ianch houao* that lie stranded
in tfie track of the great American, it*
pertinency ia to be questioned. If it ia
intended aa a warning to those in hia
front, it ia indeed timely.
A kfecial dispatch to The Coxamr-
tiox give*, in advance of the announce
ment of the committees by Speaker Ban
dall, the disposition that has I teen made
of the Georgia members. It will be seen
that Georgia ia given great prominence
in arranging the business of the houses,
the committees to which her representa
tives are assigned lteing the most im
portant in congress.
Mb. Blaise will offer an amendment
to the anny appropriation bill making it
a penal offense, punishable with fine and
imprisonment, for any person to appear
armed with a deadly weapon of any de
scription within a mile of any polling-
place at any special or general election
for congressional representatives. This
is a very sensible move on the part of Mr.
Blaine, and it is to be hoped some snch
amendment will be passed and the law
strictly enforred.
Pebu and Bolivia will attempt to crush
Chili, but the plucky republic may prove
in the long run a match for both. She
cannot moster as many men as her op*
ponent* or as many ships as Peru, but
she has something that neither of them
has—credit. She has always paid her
debts, and can therefore borrow money
in the great markets of the world.
Neither Peru nor Bolivia can borrow a
dime. Forced loans at home are their
only recourse, and this will fail them
after a while, on account of the poverty
of their people.
The announcement of the death of
General Itick Taylor, which occurred in
New York yesterday, will cause profound
regret, lie was a most gallant confeder
ate officer, and during the last years of
the war was in command of the trans-
Mississippi department. Apart from
his accomplishments as a soldier, Gen
eral Taylor was one of the most highly
cultured literary men of onr time. He
was a writer of singular power, lioldness
and brillinncy, ami gave his thoughts
pression in a style ns keen and as schol
arlyasthnt of Junius. His recently pub
lished work, “Destruction and Recon
struction," is one of the most notable
contributions yet made to the literature
of the recent war.
recent frosts will prove a blessing,
that they will operate to re
lieve the trees of their surplus- fruit
arid thereby add to the size, flavor
and market value of that which is un
injured. While the cold has been sever
er in north Georgia) it is not probable
that the injury to fruit has been greater,
haring been most effectually protected
by the dry atmosphere of the hills and
mountain ranges. In middle Georgia,
only frail on low lands has been seriously
injured, and aa there are few orchards
thus situated, it may be taken for granted
that while the crop will not be as large
as that of last year, it will command more
remunerative prices and, for that reason,
be more profitable. The fruit crop of
Georgia is a source of considerable reve
nue, and any contingency likely’to cot
off to any great extent wonld
involve serious loss. Major Moses,
who may be considered authority
upon tliia subject, estimates that the fruit
crop of Georgia last year realized a mil-
lion and a half of dollars, and every year
extensive additions are made to the or
chards. What the April days have in
store for us it is impossible to say, but it
seems certain that the fruit crop of Geor
gia has not been materially cut off. In
certain districts the damage has been
greater than others, but altogether the
crop promises to be quite ss remunerative
as that of last year.
At the instnneo of Senator Brace, the
democrats of the senate have agreed to
appoint a special committee of five to in
vestigate the affairs of the Freedmen'
hank. Senator Bruce will, it is under
stood, be chairman of the new committee,
and lie proposes to get at the facts as to
its management, its fuilure,and especially
as lothe subsequent handling of its assets.
Creswell and his associates, who have for
years lived on the balance of the institu
tions, assets will regard the formation
such a committeeu» a notice “ to go.” We
hope the new committee will go to the
Isittom of the vile swindle. Senator
Bruce will be permitted, so it is stated,
select such senators as he may desire
servo with him upon tills committee.
Coxfiiientially, we would advise the
organs to consult the record before de
nouncing the existence or the results
any legislation in Georgia. It may happen,
as in the case of the penitentiary lease
system, that they will find themselves
inadvertently justifying everything the
democratic papers of the state have said
of the intolerable rule of radicalism that,
for a brief but unhappy )ieriod, dis
graced Georgia. Meanwhile, they
must allow tho democrats a reason
able time in which to bring about
the necessary reforms. It is no easy
matter to reform evils of legislation that
have been engrafted upon onr statute
books and that permeated every depart
ment of public affairs when the people
resumed the reins of government. The
organs must allow us time.
Is the house, Saturday, Mr. Bragg, of
Wisconsin, moved an amendment to the
legislative appropriation hill striking out
all provisions for the southern claims com
mission and to insert a clause repealing
the law creating that commission. It
to be hoped that the amendment will be
adopted liy the democrats without
debate. There is no such thing as sonth-
cm war claims, the claims that go up
from this section lteing those of persons
who are willing to swear that they were
loyal to the union during the war. These
the republicans persist in calling south
ern claims, and it is best for the south
boat for the country—that the southern
claims commission be disestablished.
We trust the democrats will not
hesitate in this matter. It is not
only on the direct line of reform,
but it will give the anxiety of the organs
an opportunity to seek repose. Let the
southern claims commission take it*
place beside the freodmen’a bureau. W
trust Mr. Bragg will insist upon his
amendment most strenuously, and that
all the northern democrats will join those
of the sonth in putting a final end to
southern claims, so-called.
The list of the house committees which
we print elsewhere shows that Georgia
has been fairly, if not handsomely, pro
vided for. She has three chairmanships
and places on the most important com
mittees. Mr. Blount luts a place on the
appropriations committee, and is chair-
nun of the committee on expenditures in
the department of justice; General Cook
is chairman of pnbtic buildings and is t
member of the committee on post-offices.
Dr. Felton lias a place on ways and
means and ^expenditures in the war de
partment; Colonel Hammond is compli
mented with a place on the jiidiciarv
committec—a fact which shows that he
haa been preceded by his reputation aa a
lawyer. It is not by any means usual to
place a new member on this committee,
and in Colonel Hammond's case the
action of Speaker Randall
something more than a compliment
It is an acknowledgment ol his
profound legal attainments. Colonel
Nicholls is on the committee on manu
factures; Captain Henry Persons
invalid pensions and agriculture; Mr.
Stephens is chairman of the coinage
committee, has a place on rales, and on
the state of the law relating to the elec
toral count; Mr. Speer is on the commit
tee on militia, and Mr. Smith on patents.
Tbe mu Prospect
We present elsewhere the comments of
a number of our state exchanges upon
the recent cold snap and its effect upon
the growing crops. These comments em
brace nearly every section of the state,
and may be regarded as applying to all
portions of Georgia. The inference we
draw therefrom is that the fruit crop has
not been materially damaged. This infer
ence may be specially applied to peaches.
Undoubtedly, in some portions of the
state, this fruit has been injured, but not
to the extent that was at first supposed.
Indeed, such experienced peach-growers
of JoMMXn.OOO, is a great credit to the
democratic party. While the republican
speakers and organs have been crying out
“anarchy,"and to theextentof their abili
ty have depreciated the credit of the coun
try by proclaiming that it is eternally on
the verge of revolution, or another Mex
ico—while they have been doing all this
the investors of the country, great and
small, have shown theirdeep contempt for
such nonsense by handing over their
money to the government—and so strong
their confidence in an enduring peace
and in national prosperity that they may
be said to have trampled on each other in
their efforts to pnsh their earnings on the
officials of the treasury department.
Every one of Sherman’s boasted achiev-
ments has taken place under the auspices
of democratic supremacy, present and to
come—every one, not excepting “resuni]
tion.” He proposes now t
rely upon the sale * of the
ten-dollar redemption certificates in
refunding the ten-forties; and every
certificate that he sells will be a deep re
buke of his party associates, who are
flooding the country with “revolution 1
gabble. “Onr great financier” should
thank, not the leaders of his party, but
the democrats themselves, for the oppor
tunities he has had to win personal fame
through tiie consolidation of the public
debt, and the lessening of the annual bur
den of interest.
The New Bate* of tbe Haase.
The rales of the house were changed
last Wednesday in many important re-
specta. The membership of the six lead
ing committees was enlarged, although
there was considerable diversity of opiu-
as to the propriety of such action.
The effort to cnange the rulea so that an
affirmative vote of three-fourths would be
necessary to' pass any appropriation bill
under a suspension of the rules, led to a
warm debate. This proposition was aimed
at the river and harbor bill, which has of
late been pushed through by a two-
thirds vote. The friends of river and
harbor improvement defeated the propo
sition by a vote of 147 yeas to 97 nays.
The committee on commerce was then
given fnll control of the river and harbor
bill, which may be passed by a two-
thirds vote as heretofore. The committees
on ways and means, hanking and currency
and coinage were given leave to report at
any time, and,on motion of any member,
the house may fix a day for the consider
ation of any public bill reported by any
oneoftlcse committees, and the honse
may continue its consideration until dis
posed of. This pnts these committees,
together with the committee of commerce
as to the river and harbor bill, on a foot
ing that seenres a consideration of what
ever measures they may report. Under
the old rale they might report a measure
of great importance, and yet a single ob
jection wonld send it to the calendar or
to the committee of the whole, where the
chances of uninterrupted burial are al
ways goo<l. Another important change
is fonnd in the new provision that the
morning hour shall not be dispensed
with on any day, for any purpose, except
by a two-thirds vote of the members
present. With no morning hour there
could be no call of the committees for re
ports, and in the last congress some of the
committees were not called but once du
ring the long session. The appropriations
committee cannot now cut out the mom-
ing hour except by a two-thirds, instead
of a majority, vote. This is as it should
be. All of these changes in the rules will
expedite business, and give greater com
prehensiveness to the action of the house.
The democratic majority did a good day 1
work on Wednesday.
Yellow Fever Germs.
The lesson of the Plymouth should not
be disregarded in the districts that har
bored yellow fever last year. The facts
in the case of the Plymouth are briefly
these: At Santa Crux in November last
the fever appeared on board, and several
cases and deaths occurred. She was soon
after ordered to Boston, where site laid
all winter long and np to the middle
last month. During that time she was
thoroughly fumigated, disinfected and
frozen out. Every means known to nan
itary science was employed to rid the ves
sel of the fever germs. All the stores
were landed in a temperature that was
often down to zero, the bedding and other
matter of that kind were destroyed
rything movable in short was removed
during the winter. During a part
of the winter the vessel lay
dock enclosed in ice; the wate
in her store-rooms was constantly
froeen, and when she was removed from
the dock and fires were lighted under
her boilera, the water in her bilges re
mained frozen for several days, so
thoroughly chilled had the vessel become
in the polar air of Massachusetts. She
went to sea with a crew “entirely healthy. 1
When two hundred miles out, going
south, and before she had touched at any
port, the fever—the unmistakable fever
of the tropics—reappeared, the first case
occurring precisely where the hammock
was slung, in which the first case of last
November was found.
The moral is as plain as the hump on
a camel’s back. No amount of freezing
or fumigating can kill the germs of the
fever. It slumbers in spite of all that
sanitary science can do. But the germ
will not hurt anybody, if i
given no chance to grow
fatal proportions. In other words,
our sole hope consists in taking away the
soil—that is, the filth—tint the germ
must have before heat can expand it into
a deadly disease. Heat and the germ may
be equal to the task in the confined air of
ship at sea, but on the breezy mainland
they require the assistance of filth. Take
away the last named in this latitnde, and
safety from the resultant disease is as
sured; retain it, and the chances are at
least even that the fever will reappear in
any town that was visited by it last
The National
The subscriptions for the new four per
rents were suddenly closed last Friday
by the absorption of all that the secre
tary had offered to tbe public on the
terms then existing. That day’s sub
scriptions aggregated $59,502,750, or
rather they were limited to that amount,
because that was all that was needed to
cover the balance of the 5-20 bonds of
1867 and 1S6S. The miscellaneous
subscriptions of Friday exceeded six
millions, then came a subscription of
forty millions from the Bank of Com
merce of New York, leaving only about
thirteen millions to be sold, and this bal
ance was taken on the same day by the
irst national bank, also of New York.
It is not known whether the subscription
of forty millions is on foreign account or
not; the balance of the day’s subscrip
tions is certainly for home consumption.
The probability is that the whole amount
was taken by the New York bankers for
the purpose of securing the profits of
conversion, and that they will seek cus
tomers wherever they can find them.
The consols of 1867 and 1868 have been
called, and the only bonds that are now
subject to redemption are the “ten-forty”
five per cents, which amount to $19!,-
566,309. After these come the 6s of 188],
which Secretary Sherman, or rather his
democratic successor, will be free to at
tack on and after June 30,1881. These
long sires amount to $264,000,000. Alter
these come the “new five*”—but this is
taking an unnecessarily long look ahead.
The sale within ninety days of bonds
THE CONSTITUTION - : ATLANTA, QA.. TUESDAY* IAPRIL. 13, 1879.
genins ia sometimes hereditary, even in as
republics.
Georgia has no place in the congres
sional list of duelists. None of her mem
bers had a “bloody rencontre, ’” and none
of them committed suicide, although
twelve members, all told, died by then-
own hands. No Georgia member was ac
cidentally killed, none committed “grave
crimes/’ and no homicide or deadly as
sault is set down against their names.
Georgia has in fact no reason to be
ashamed of the story that Major Poore
has compiled from the records of the
legislative department
Tbe View* of Mr. Stephen*.
We print elsewhere the details of an
interview held with the Hon. Alexander
H. Stephens by a Washington corre
spondent of The Constitution, which will
be found to be of unusual interest just at
this time. The letter has been delayed
in the mails, but this does not affect the
timeliness and pertineucy of Mr. Ste
phens’s remarks. It will be seen that the
marvellous mind of the great Georgia
Commoner is still as bright as of old, and
that, in marked contrast to many of our
modern statesmen, he possesses the
courage of his convictions. Mr. Stephens
gives his views and opinions upon mat
ters of public concern with the point and
directness that have always characterized
his utterances. Early in the session, the
venerable statesman took occasion, dur
ing a democratic caucus, to call attention
to the necessity of general legislation.
His suggestion was overruled by a major
ity of the caucus, but this fact by no
means detracts from the potency of his
arguments. In the course of the inter
view with our correspondent he briefly but
pointedly outlines his position and shows
why it is the duty of the democrats, now
tlijjt congress has been called together,
to proceed to bring about such re
forms in legislation as the necessities of
the people and the general welfare of the
country demand. He points out that
there would be no extra cost to the peo
ple, were congress to remain in session
the year round, for tho reason that sena
tors and representatives are now salaried
officers of the government
The arguments advanced are strong
ones, and we believe the time has arrived
when the democrats, by general legisla
tion in the direction suggested by Mr.
Stephens, should justify the confidence
which has been placed in them by a ma
jority of the people of the country. The
windy protests of the republicans and
the comical clamors of the organs should
alike be disregarded. The commercial
and business interests of the country,
and the interests of the people of all
classes—save that particnlar clique
capitalists that uses John Sherman as its
tool—demand relief. There has never
been a moment’s cessation in the finan
cial policy which has involved the best
men of the country in bankruptcy, de
pressed business and added thousands
recruits to the army of tramps. The
people demand the reform that has
been promised; they demand that John
Sherman’s contraction policy shall be
abolished; they demand that congress
shall do all in its power to cure the paraly
sis wiiich has overtaken all departments
Of trade. They demand reform
not only in the financial policy of the
government, but in the tariff, and in the
methods of collecting internal revenue,
and if the majority in congress fails
these things it will most grievously dis
appoint those who placed it in power.
We are glad to learn from a telegram
sent us by Hon. Emory Speer, which
will be found among our dispatches, that
strong ground was taken in the honse
yesterday in favor of legislating in the
direction of financial relief for the people.
It has been unanimously resolved in the
democratic caucus not to adjourn over
Mondays, and this will allow the intro
duction of new business. The demo
crats must fulfill their obligations to the
people.
anticipate a severe struggle alike between
the two parties and between the legisla- !
tive,and executive branches of the gov- j BILL ARP’S EASTER-DAY MUSINGS.
ernment before this important matter is
disposed of. The democrats have the ad
vantage, because the people want no
more troops at the polls; and there is no
reason to believe that the democratic
position on this question will be weak
ened by anything that the president may
do.
Tbe Canadian Crisis.
Canada is in a rage. Her guarantees
of local independence and self govern
ment are in danger. And it came about
in this way. The dominion administra
tion is conservative. The lieutenant-gov
ernor of the province of Quebec is a pro
nounced and aggressive liberal—a very
independent and careless liberal. He
had a conservative provincial ministry,
which he summarily dismissed, although
it was supported by a majority of eigh
teen in the provincial house of - sixty-
five members. The new liberal provin
cial ministry dissolved the house and*
went to the polls—securing a majority of
one, it is claimed, by offering a conserva
tive the speaker’s chair in the way of a
bribe. At any rate this angered the con
servatives, and they demanded the re
moval of the lieutenant-governor, whose
name, by the way, is Letellierde St Just
Sir John MacDonald, the premier of
Canada, seconded by his min
isters, promptly asked Lord Lome,
the governor-general of Canada, to give
his assent to the removal yf the obnox
ious because liberal lieutenant-governor.
The queen’s son-in-law, instead of de
ciding the matter, referred it to the colo
nial office in Downing street, where it is
now pending. A member of the cabinet
has gone on to present the views of the
dominion administration. It is very
likely that Downing street will advise
the governor-general to act as his minis
ters and parliament desire; but that is
not the trouble: Canada wants no impe
rialism in her affairs. She wants no
personal government She wants a min
istry that must look not to Downing
street but to her representatives in her
own parliament The rage of the Cana
dians is only equaled by their astonish’
ment If the decision of the London
office should be favorable to Letellier,
the storm would become perhaps
alarming. As it is, the Canadian
papers are filled with bitter
comments on Lord Lome and royal
ty generally. A conservative paper
published right under the shadow of
Rideau hall said, a few days ago, that the
whole affair “ only seems to show how
“anomalous is our quasi-independent po-
“ sition, and how at any moment the at
tenuated bond of British connection
“may be snapped apart We are not
“amongst those who are afraid tq look this
“issue squarely in the face. It must
“come sooner or later. Perhaps this
“crisis may bring it on sooner than ex-
“pected.” Annexation talk is just now
the fashion in Canada, and “loyalty 1
has fallen far below par. Anti-Lome de
monstrations are freely discussed, and
local autonomy as freely demanded.
A raw weeks ago, Captain Howell, of
The Constitution, wrote to Messrs. Harper
& Brothers, of New York, suggesting that
an illustrated article, or a series of illus
trated articles, embodying sketches of the
picturesque scenery of north Georgia and
facts pertaining to the vast natural re
sources thereof, would not only add largely
to the interest of their Magazine, but would
be a timely and much-needed advertise
ment of one of the most productive sec
tions of the south. Yesterday, Mr. Ernest
Ingersoll, one of the most distinguished of
our younger magazinists, and Mr. Frank
H. Taylor, an artist of considerable reputa
tion, arrived in the city, bringing letters
from the editor of Harper’s Maga
zine, commending them to the care of
The Constitution. These gentlemen will
remain in Atlanta until Tuesday, but will
return in a short time and will make this
city the center of their operations and of
some exceedingly interesting and valuable
work. 'It will be a source of great gratifica
tion to our people to know tliat the Har
pers have concluded to devote a portion of
their widely-circulated magazine to Geor
gia, and that they have sent among us gen
tlemen of such culture and refinement.
Major Ben. Perley Poore has just pub
lished a congressional directory that, be
ginning with the congress of 1876, ex
tends down to, but does not include,
the present congress. It contains a
sketch of every man who was elected to
the first forty-five congresses of the nation^
The number thus elected is 5,337, includ
ing, of course, many who were not admit
ted, or who died before taking their seats.
Of this number 704 were bora in New
York, 532 in Virginia,439 in Massachusetts
340 in Connecticut, 237 in Maryland, 225 in
North Carolina, 222 in Kentucky, 202 in
New Jersey, 182 in Ohio, 169 in New
Hampshire, 157 in South Carolina, 154
Tennessee, 131 in Vermont, and 124 in
Georgia. 52 were bom in Ireland, 21 in
•Scotland, 17 in England and 12 in Ger
many. 142, all told, were of foreign birth.
Of the whole number only 1,793, or
one-third, received a “ classical or collegi
ate or liberal” education; one-third had
the advantage of an “ academic” educa
tion, and the remaining third picked up
the rudiments at public scho Is, or where-
ever they could find them. Thirty were
self-educated,” whatever that means.
Very few served more than two terms
Georgia has had 20 representatives that
servedflthreefcterms, 9 that served four
terms, and 5 that served five terms. Mr.
Stephens is now serving out his twelfth
term, if the fraction that he served in the
forty-third congress be counted as an
unit. Very few have served longer than
Mr. Stephens. Virginia had one fifteen-
term man, North Carolina one fourteen-
term representative, and Massachusetts,
North Carolina and Virginia one each
that served twelve terms. Of senators
Georgia has never had one that served
three terms. Thomas H. Benton’s ser
vice is unrivaled in length, although
Senator Hamlin is in his fifth term, and
Louisiana has had one five-term senator.
Only 9 senators have served four terms
since the foundation of the government
Two thousand four hundred and fifteen
of the people’s representatives were law
yers, 280 merchants, 176 farmers, 156
physicians, 50 manufacturers, 46 minis
ters, 35 printers, 30 editors, 30 planters,
29 bankers, 19 mechanics, and the bal
ance come under the head “scattering.”
Of the last named one was an actor, one
barber, one a prize-fighter, one a saw
yer, two were shoemakers and four were
literary fellers.
In the list of heredity Georgia Is not
behind. She furnished two Howell
Cobbs, unde and nephew; two Colquitis,
father and son; two Lumpkins, father
and son^ two Telfairs, father and son,and
two Jack-sons. The Adams, Bayards,
Breckinridges, Harrisons, Chandlers,
Stocktons, Fielinghnysens, Heisters and
aa Major W. M. Moses, of Washington _ _ _ . , , w ^ ^ |
County, give it aa their opinion that the bearing only four per cenL, to the value the service of other families show that that he desires to retain the election laws dropsy.’
The Army BUI.
The army appropriation bill is about to
enter upon its second stage, and as cir
cumstances seem destined to make it
bill of at least considerable historic im
portance, this is perhaps a favorable time
to look into its prominent features. It
a nine-section bill.
The military or non-political sections
of the bill are neither striking nor novel.
The first section contains the appropria
tions proper, amounting in round num
here to $26,800,000 and leaving the
strength and organization of the army
essentially unchanged. The second
tion provides for a new edition of the
army regulations; the third section ele
vates the salary of the examiner of state
claims; the fourth consolidates the
French and Spanish professorships
West Point; the fifth offers graduates of
West Point inducements to resign their
claims upon a commission in the army ,
the sixth is the political section; the
seventh authorizes the detail of an officer
to superintend certain Indian education,
the eighth repeals the law that requires
military headquarters to be in govern
ment buildings, and the ninth, a con
glomerate section, prohibits promotions
above the rank of captain, except in the
engineer corps, and except in the case of
captains who have served twenty years
in the army, prohibits the transfer of any
officer below the rank of major to the
retired list, except upon the report of
board that he is unfit for active service,
and gives the highest actual rank he has
ever held to any officer hereafter retired
by reason of wounds.
These sections, except the sixth, were
approved by both houses of the last con
gress. They put aside the questions of
reorganization contained in the Burnside
and Banning bills; they provide for
slight retrenchment In expenses; they
forbid thetraneferof appropriations from
one item to another; they authorize rail-
oad companies to do a general telegraph
business—all in a bill of great brevity
directness and consistency.
The hot and prolonged debate arises
over the sixth section. At the risk of
repetition we give the substance of it, so
that the reader may keep in mind the
exact nature of the straggle. .Section
2002 of the revised statutes provides that
no military or naval officers or other per
son engaged in the service of the United
States “shall order, bring, keep or have
under his authority or control any troops
or armed men at the place where any
genera] or special election is held in any
state, unless it be necessary to repel the
armed enemies of the United States or to
keep the peace at the polls.” The army
appropriation bill introduced by Mr.
Sparks and passed by the house contained
a clause repealing the last eight words of
this section. In abundant caution and in
deference to republican fears the demo
crats, perhaps wisely, but rather super
fluously, adopted a proviso declaring that
nothing contained in the repeal shall be
held to abridge the effect of sections 2002
and 5297 of the revised statutes in rela
tion to the duty and power of the presi
dent under them to carry oat the sections
of the constitution authorizing him to
send troops upon the application of the
governor or legislature of a state.
The republicans of the honse fought
the sixth section, not upon its merits,
but upon the ground that it was a threat
which deprived the president of the free
exercise of his constitutional functions—
that, in other words, the democrats say
to the president, sign this bill or disband
the army. General Garfield admitted in
the course of the debate that the dis
puted section calls for what is right and
proper, but the manner of the call he
considered revolutionary. It is thought
that the republican senators will strongly
present another line of argument, name
ly, that the adoption of the section as it
by the honse would render
the supervisors and marshals useless,
because they could not then come near
the polls with arms, and any officer who
sent armed marshals to the polls would
be subject to a fine of $6,000 and impris
onment at hard labor for five years. This
point will be insisted on doubtless in the
hope of inducing the president to veto
the army bill, it being generally thought
they stand. Altogether we may safely
HIS BUDDING HOPES.
IN THE CAPITOL.
Ha B- comaa Somawhit Co minimi ca* ire is Regard to
Pro* pec lire Goarentiru, and in Passing
Tenches Upcn a Paw Editorial and
Legal Idiosyncrasies, Etc.
The Burlington Hawkeye congratulates
itself that The Coxstitutiox will be clam
oring ** for millions of heathen Chinese to
‘ come over and help us.” And pray what
will Tub Constitution want with the
Chinese? It is scarcely possible that the
Hawkeye believq^ha^tbe negroes are
going to leave theih homes and submit to
be colonized in states and communities
where there is no demand whatever for the
sort of labor the negro is capable of doing.
Our humorous contemporary should
member that there are some things in this
world beyond the control of politicians,
pseudo-philanthropists or schemers of any
kind. One of these is the future of the
negro. This may seem strange at first
glance, but it is undoubtedly true.
Skxatoe Bruce, of Mississippi, appears to
be too decent and respectable to suit the
views of his white party friends, and when
the republican minority in the senate made
tip their fists of committeemen, they did
not even consult his wishes. Bruce failed
to appreciate the snubbing, and brought the
matter to the attention of Mr. Lamar, who,
in turn, brought it to the attention of the
democrats. The result was that Bruce was
promised the chairmanship of any special
committee he might propose, even if it had
to be accomplished by a vote of the senate.
The republicans heard of this and proceeded
to smooth down Bruce’s bristles by explain
ing that they intended no slight. It is
mystery how a colored man as intelligent
and as decent as Bruce can reconcile his
party affiliations with his self-respect
Wendell Phillips is on the war-path
again. His nose is sharp as a pen and
painted green, and he babbles most bitterly
of philanthropy. For the sake of the nerves
of the unhappy people who depend upon
Wendell for their political information,
is to be regretted that he has never made
himself acquainted with the real condition
of affairs in-the south. If he bad made
point of studying the characteristics of tb
negro, for instance, he could account for tlie
exodus now going on without creating
suspicion that his insanity has assumed
new phase.
** The man who stops the wheels of gov-
“ ernment,” said Zeb Vance the other day,
“ is the man who stops them and not sonic-
“ body else who does something which
“ does not like.” This puts the case neatly
and effectually. If Mr. Hayes has time,
the midst of his arduous duties, to tamper
with the people, and if he really desires
test the matter in order to satisfy the cu
riosity of Mr. Rogers, or any other amiable
and able occupant of the white house,
advise him to veto the supply bills,
won’t take him long.
Some of the democratic politicians of New
York are still engaged in fighting Tilden.
But if our Uncle Samuel is half as active
the republican organs pretend, he is not
likely to snffer any defeat in his own state.
The prospects are that before the season
over he will capture the Tammany crowd,
boom and all.
Written for The Constitution.
Its a hopeful season of a hopeful year.
Everybody seems to be feeling good and
trying to do something. The farmers are
wide awake planting com, clearing off the
ground, burning brush,hauling gaanna,
and putting in a little more cotton than
usual. You see the lower the price the
more they must raise to bring enough
money to pay for the guanna. The doctors
are holding conventions to raise their mile
age and determine whether the widow,
the coffin man, or themselves, is entitled to
the first money after a poor man dies. The
law is unsettled on this pinte; but they say
they can control it, for if they are to be cut
out they wont let him die at all. The law
yers are going to memorialize the legisla
ture, because when a man employs era
to git him a homestead, and gives
his note for the fee,he pleads the homestead
agin the note when they sue him on it, and
they never git any fee at all. The railroad
men are holding conventions to fix their
freight so as to build up the big cities and
dry up the little ones. I had a box of or
anges sent me from Florida the other day
for two dollars freight, which I dont gram
ble at, but find I could have had em shipped
clean through to Rome for 75 cents and
brought back to Cartersville for a quarter,
and saved a whole dollar by it They say its
cheaper to ran by a little town than to stop
at it, for the friction on the breaks is mighty
expensive. The teachers are holding con
ventions to discuss whether its best to
put boys upon their honor and
em do as they please or lick em first and
appeal to their honor afterwards as a side
show. Its a contest between Beman and
anti-Beman—the tight and the loose sys
tems of instillin larnin. In my opinion
narry one of em is going to make a good
scholar out of a hostile subject. Judge
Wright says he went to a Beiuau school for
ten years and never found out which one of
the boys set behind him. He was afeared
to look back. He favors the Beman system
for other people’s children and other peo
ple favor it for hisen.
And the editors are to have a convention.
They are coming right here in Bartow, the
centre of old Cherokee, the focus of space—
a county whose lands are taxed higher per
acre than any county in the state—the
headquarters of imaginary independence—
whose farmers have got as fat and sassy as
stall-fed cattle and won’t mix with the corn-
herd. They’ve had their own way and
their owu congressman so long they don’t
u-n— *1 any other way, any other
The astonishment of the treasury officials
in Washington that Georgia is able
to float a four per cent bond is ill-
timed and injudicious. No person who
does not know what a great state Georgia
under democratic rule ought to be allowed
to hold a position in the federal treasury.
Commissioner Rack’s prompt remarks
about our four per cents have cut off Uncle
Johnny Knox’s threatened decision in its
bloom. Uncle Johnny, it will be rement
bered, is under contract to do all the alleged
comptrolling that the currency may need,
and he seems to have had a vague idea that
the Georgia bonds needed comptrolling.
But in this he was mistaken.
It is useless for the Hon. Zachary Chand
ler, and the gang of which he
conspiciuons an ornament, to attempt to
deceive the southern negro with the
story of forty acres and
mule. If the “National emigration aid
society” succeed in enticing the colored
away from their homes in the south,
the republican leaders will be compelled to
promise them a share of the offices at the
north. •
“OLD SI.”
Be Speaks Bis Mind On tke Emigra
tion Craze.
Old 8i finished raking down the winter cob
webs from the file shelves, and then began to
wrestle with the exchanges. Finally he said:
“Dar ’pears ter be er ginrul moobment ’mong
de Massysip’ niggers to’rds de norf-wes’?”
“Yes, indeed. They are going there by thou
nds.”
“80 dey is, an* dey’s gwine dar er heep faster
dan day’s gwine ter come back, too!”
“ Do you suppose - -will wan to come
ickr*
“Youknodey will! Talk ’bout karryin 1
shell fum de sho’ an’ hit’ll sing ob de sea, er totin'
off er blin’ cat in er bag an’ hit'll turn np pres
in dy in de same chimbly comer wh&r yer
tuck hit fum, but dar*s er streak
ob gravertashun ’bout er avridge nig
ger dat draws like er in jun-rubber strop an’ ar*
us pullin’ him back to’rds his birf-place, ter
fade!”
You don’t believe they will be conten e out
west, then!”
“Dey can’t be—taint humin natur*. Dey
fool’d ’way now on false pretenses. Eb’ry one ok
dem niggers’spects when he steps on de steam*
bote ter be landid on er privlt w’arfin front ob
reddy furnish’d plantashun, wider United
States manhil standin’ by boldin’er gub’ment
deed in one han’ an* er thurrer-bred gub’ment
mule wid de odder han\ ter welcum him ter de
Promis’d Lan’!”
“They will some of them undoubtedly be dis
appointed and feel like returning.”
But dere aint no’way ter stop hit. C
canister dem only wid ’rpeareunce? Dey gam
bles on de chances fum de kradle ter de grave,
sartin. But dat aint me, now! Whenebberl
’migrates fum hyar dey’s got ter tie dat mnleon
ty akers ob groan’ in dar sight ob de Georgy
line, now yer heah me?”
So the old man is likely to remain with ns for
time to come.
RICHARD TAYLOR.
Death of n La
Nrw Yoax, April 12.—General Richard
Taylor, a well known general in the con
federate service, ia lying dangerously ill at
residence of S. L. Barlow in this city.
in an
nearly all day. In the afternoon he rallied
sufficiently to receive holy communion.
Hia sister, Mrs. Bettie Taylor Dandridge, of
Virginia, ia with him. Everything that
done, tiht his disease
one that bellies science.
General Richard Taylor, of Louisiana,
only son of the late President Taylor, died
this morning at the residence of 8. L. M.
Barlow, in this city. Cause of death—
fishermen urging the creation of a fishery
aepartraen -n the scientific commission,
with whot 1 nil questions connected with j
fisheries s\ai 1 be a special charge. |
Irregui. ) :ities were discovered in tlie THE LATE YEL’ OW FEVER CASE,
books of Daac A. Burens, treasurer of Fox-
boro ravings bank of Boston. The bank
commissioners demanded his removal and
an investment commenced. Being refused
the keys of the safe they put men in the
bank to guard its affairs.
*L R i? RE8K!f 7 ATI T ,E9 o{ the freshmen crews of
the Harvard and Columbia colleges met in
New London, Conn., to-day, and agreed to
rowan eight-oared three miles straight-away
on the Thames river at 6 o’clock on the
The Report of the Secretary of the Navy-Tho Foil
Membership of tho Committoos-Bmgg and
the Southern War Claims—The Re
publican Senate Canons, Eto.
Harvard universities
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Special %tapatch to The Constitution.
Loxdox, April 13.—The Times in its lead
ing article says that the unequivocal atti
tude assumed by the sultan relative to the
khedive is doubtless an advantage which
England and France will be able to turn to
account, but we cannot as yet discern any
valid reason for England’s abandoning the
policy of extreme caution with regard
Egyptian affairs. We are not
concerned as a nation with the
solvency of Egypt, but we
vitally concerned in its tranquillity and
good government. We cannot view with
indifference llie khedive’* return to the
system of corruption and oppression, or
sanction the dismissal of the European
ministers and the practical rejection of all
external control, but wc shall certainly
hesitate to participate in the subversion of
his nominal authority till every other
means of settling the difficulty has
failed. The difficulty would not be
overcome by. substituting Halim
Pasha for Ismail as khedive yn the mere
nomination of the porte. Ismail would
very probably resist, and there is no force
at hand to compel his submission. The
proposal for a joint expedition by
England and France is manifestly pre
mature, and could not fail to cause a
grave and well-founded misgiving in both
countries. Their interests in Egypt
neither co-cxteusive nor identical. If a
display of force were resolved on England
might find her influence directed to se
curing good government, while France
would be occupied with even greater
energy iu defending the claims of
foreign creditors. It would be
difficult in the face of such divergence to
maintain a common and united policy.
For these reasons we think it still preuia
ture to conclude that the welfare and tran
quillity of Egypt require the deposition of
the reigning khedive.
believe there
1 that’s fitting.
m glad you are coming up, for it’s time
jieople found out there are some other
iieopie wiih a head on. Willingham must
be lalked to by tlie|>atriarchs. He reminds
one of the fellow who went to cam(>-mceting
up at Fairmount and was standin on
bv a tree when a preacher came up and axed
him if hedident want to get religion, and
he looked sorter astonished and said: “Youre
mistaken in the man, I reckon. I live down
in Bartow.” I wish you would tell Wil
lingham that last fall’s race is over, and his
man was elected, so tliat he can now turn
his attention to some fresher subjects.
'J here’s a power of good in him yet but you
can’t get it out by cussin at hint. If a
brother be overtaken in a fault, entreat him;
toll him along gently: show hint a bundle
of fodder. Editors are just iu/man, like all
the balance of us. They will get stubborn
sometimes, and the more you punch em
the further they go in their hole
Then thercs that Oakalona
ought to be put up and stabled for the next
war. Why, he’s tbe slowest critter on emo
tions I ever heard of. Its taken him just 14
years to git mad enough to fight. How we
arc all doing our best to make peace and re
store the union and have a love-feast, and
this Oakalona editor is just beginning to git
mad. Why, he writes like he would siz if
you was to throw water on him. There are
some folks who arc always ahea l of the
music, and then there arc some who keep
mile or two behind it He reminds ine of _
feller I saw at a barbacu last suniuiar. Two
fellers had got into a fight, and thev fit and
fout and fout till one ot em hollow'ed enuf,
and the crowd enjoyed it amazinly. Some
three or four hours afterwurds a feller
stripped off his coat and rolled up his
sleeves and tied his gallusses around him,
and went about crying like a school boy
and whining out: “Whar’s the man what
sh. ved my cousin back?” “I just want to
find the man who kept my Cousin Joe from
seein the fight”—and lie popped his fist in
his hand and the tears of auger and indig
nation was just a rolin down his cheeks.
“Whar’s the man that shoved my cousin
back?”
Well, the man had gone home and he
knowd it. But another big strappin feller
jumped in front of him with a whoop like
an itijun and, throwing off his coat, shrieked
out, “Ini the man that shoved your cousin
back. Im the individual you are looking
for. Im the bull of the woods. Im the
iiest man that ever snapped a jawbone.
Bring on your cousin, my friend. I never
fight less than two at a time.” The cryin
feller and his cousin were seen in about two
minutes gallopin down the road on a little
grizzly gray mule, riding double.
I never hear from Oakolona that I dont
unconciously exclaim—“Wbare tlie man
that shoved my cousin back.”
Bill Arp.
OF INTEREST TO GEORGIANS.
New Yore Tribune: Tbe senate laughed
yesterday when Mr. Hill, by a slip of the
tongue, spoke of it as “the confederate sen
ate.” And yet, in the presence of nineteen
ex-rebel soldiers, Mr. Hill was merely speak
ing the sober truth.
Chicago Times: In the course of debate
vesterday Senator Hill, of Georgia, amused
his republican hearers by referring to the
body he was addressing as a part of the
“confederate congress.” It was a slip of the
tongue, but showed the drift of the south
ern democratic mind, and was altogether
too near the exact truth to be pleasant to
*he ears of his northern colleagues.
WA8uixGTox Special to Philadelphia
Chboniclb: While Senator Ben. Hill, of
Georgia, was speaking on Bell’s care to-day
he inadvertently referred to the senate as
the confederate senate. There was laughter
at his expense, and the ioke was generally
enjoved. It was even funnier when Hill
tried to turn tbe laugh on the other side. Of
course he was expected to unfurl the stars
and bars over his desk, but he didn’t.
Washington Special to Bostox Adver
tiser: In the course of the debate to-day
Ben. Hill made a curious blunder in a
speech, which unintentionally fitted the
present situation so well as to cause a uni
versal laugh at his expense. Carried away
by his argument, he seemed to imagine
himself at Richmond in a senate which no
longer exists, and, shaking of the former
action of the governor of Connecticut ap-
pointing a senator, he proceeded to speak of
the appointee presenting his credentials
“to the confederate senate.” A general
laugh stopped him, and In this Hill himself
was obliged to join. The mistake, however,
is one that annoys the democrats consider
ably, and tbe republicans are generally
joking them about getting on too fast iu
their revolution.
Baltimore Gazette: In the senate last
--.’ondsy a very significant episode mai
the debate on tbe New Hampshire sew.
ship. Senator Ben. Hill, of Georgia, was
addressing the body. He raid: “If the
governor of New Hampshire has the power
to fill a vacancy in the confederate senate,”
etc. A burst of laughter greeted the senator
and for a moment he was very much em
barrassed. Realizing the situation be ex
plained that he bad been made a victim of
a slip of the tongue, and that he had no
revolutionary designs whatever. Mr. Hill
may explain as much as he pleases, bat he
will never convince the loyal sentiment of
the country that he did not mean precisely
what he said. The present senate is now
known in republican parlance as “the con
federate senate,’ - and Mr. Hill has evidently
accepted the situation. Everything goes to
show tliat we.are in tbe midst of a howling
revolution.
Tbe Nebraska Cremation.
Hastings, Neb., April 12.—In the trial of
Oliver. Fisher and others, for murdering
and bnrning two men, Bion Brown, a
young man employed by Oliver as herder,
turned state’s evidence, and detailed the
proceedings of tbe murder, bnt asserted the
bnrning was accidental. The prosecution
has closed. The rumor of the intended at
tempt to rescue Oliver, on the part of the
ow boys, has brought a company of soldiers
jere from Omaha.
Khedive’s uncle, is well educated, enlight
ened and liberal-minded. He has lived
quietly for several years past in Eunq»ean
fashion at Balta Liman, on the Bosphorus.
He was once offered the |»ortfolio of minis
ter of finance, but declined it .He has
systematically held aloof from public af
fairs, though he was always well received at
the palace.
The council of French ministers came to
no resolution in rent'd to Egypt, simply
deciding to act in unison with England.
St. Petersburg, April 12.—The Keiff cor
respondent of the St. Petersburg Journal
gives the following accouut of the outbreak
among the political prisoners last month,
which was briefly mentioned by telegraph
at the time:
Persons under arrest in the Keiff prison
resolved some time ago to tunnei under tlie
walls and escai»e. The scheme was betraved
by one of the conspirators. The authorities
allowed tlie prisoners to continue the exca
vation. When the tunnel was completed
aud the prisoners had entered it, one after
another, intending coming through tlie
opening beyond the prison precinct,
the soldiers previously posted at the own
ing shot escaping prisoners as they came
up. When the bulk of prisoners, terrified
by the noise of firing, stopped and remained
in the tunnel, soldiers were sent in from
behind, and the unfortunate wretches,
caught between two fires were all shot down.
The proceedings seemed to give the officials
much amusement, and the director of Kieff
K rison has been praised and decorated for
aving acted with such cleverness and de
cision..
London, April 13.—Tlie weather is cold
England. It is snowing in London and
the northern parts of the kingdom.
The striking miners and owners, of Dur
ham,are now separately discussing the terms
for the settlement of difficulties. A joint
conference will afterwards be held and,
possibly, the strike will end immediately.
Wm. Palmer, M. A., a brother of Lord
Sel borne, is dead.
The queen of Portugal is seriously ill.
Ax apparently semi-official German co
muuication, referring to the dispatch of
American iron-clad 10 Samoa, points out
that the German ships Ariadne and Alba-
tios are still there aud fully suffice for the
protection of foreigners.
It is expected that an European deputy
governor will be appointed for eastern Rou-
tuelia.
M. J. H. Cartier de Villk, a well known
satirical writer and journalist and long the
director of the Paris Figaro, is dead, a ed c '
TO THE FAR WEST.
Washington, April 12.—There was a well
attended caucus of republican senators this
evening. There was a very general and
harmonious interchange of views concern
ing the course to be pursued by tlie minor
ity of the senate in regard to the army
appropriation bill. No formal action was
taken, but it was agreed that every possible
effort be made to defeat the passage of the
bill in its present shape, for the reason that
the enactment of its sixth section would, in
the opinion of the minority, prevent the
‘a posse comitatus on election days for
the execution of civil processes, and any and
all descriptions issued by the United States
authority. Several other provisions of the
bill were also considered very objectionable
and I11 need of essential amendments,
which will be offered by various republican
senators. Among them are clauses which
propose to prohibit appoinraents and pro
motions in the army till otherwise provid-
by law, while at the same time
the bill holds out inducements for the crea
tion of additional vacancies by providing
that all officers hereafter retired by reason
of wounds shall be retired upon the highest
ranks respectively held by them in regular
volunteer service before retirement*
number of senators expressed a belief that
the purpose of these provisions is to pave
way for the appointment into the army
hereafter of friends of the dominant party.
Although no propositions were formally
adopted, several amendments to the sixth
section, of which notice had been given in
the senate, were spoken of with general
favor, especially those submitted by Blaine
and Paddock, the first providing heavy
penalties against the presence of any per
son bearing deadly weapons, either conceal
ed or displayed, within a mile of any poll
ing place on federal election day; and
second, providing that the posse comitatus
clause of the act of last year shall hot be
applicable to any troops employ ml in the
protection of life and property in the states
of Nebraska, Oregon, Nevada, Kansas
and Colorado, and territories sub
ject to Indian incursions or on Indi
an reservations. Mr. Paddock’s amend
ment was adopted unanimously by
tbe senate last year but was stricken off the
bill by the committee of conference. From
the tenor of the remarks it seems probable
that a great many speeches will be made on
the army bill by republican senators, ami
that the debate is likely to be pro
longed for ten days or a fortnight
ihe whites in any state, for reasons which
obvious to any one acquainted with lm-
n nature, or certainly with human m-
ture as developed in the south. Let a fifth
of the blacks remove from each of the cot
ton stares, and those remaining would un
doubtedly get better wages and fairer treat
ment. There is too much cotton raised,
which makes the price so low that planters
find it impossible to pay the blacks what we
would ordinarily oonsiiier fair living wages.
If there was one-third less cotton raised the
planters wonld get about as many dollars
for their crop as uow, for the price would
The following are the standing committees
of the house of representatives:
Elections—Springer, Manning, fllemous, Speer,
olerick, Annticld, Beluhoover, Sawyer, Phister,
Keifcr, Camp, Calking, Field, Overton and
Weaver.
Ways and means—Fernando Wood, Tucker,
Gibson, l’helns, Morrison, Mills. Carlisle, Felton
Garfield, Kelley, Conger, Frye and Dunnell.
Appropriations—Atkins, Blount, Singleton o.
Mississippi, Clymer, Blackburn, Wells, Cobh. For
ney, McMahon. Baker, Monroe, Hawley, Hubbcll,
Cannon and Hlacock.
Banking and current
Young, Lewis, I-ouns
Fort, Price and Crapo.
Pacific railroad — McLane, Chalmers. Tlli
Clark, Dickey, Ellis, Martin, Wellborn, Harnn
Bel ford, Newberry, Bailey and Buttcrworth.
Claims — Bright, Dickey, Davidson, C
O’Connor. Davis, Sanford, Lindsey. Barber. Bow
man and Crowley.
Commerce—Reagan, Bliss, Ross. Kenna, Mc
Lane, Thomas. Turner, Ackten, Beale, Dcuster,
Clardy, O’Neill, Waite, Henderson, Townsend of
Ohio and Russell.
Public lands—Converse, Wright, Steele, McKen
zie, Williams of Alabama, •> -—
Washburnc and Dunnell.
Post-offices and post roads—Money, Clnrk, Cook,
Evans, Singleton of Illinois, Shelly, Jones, Ketc h-
am. Joyce, Stone and ninghair
District of Columbia—HuuUl_,
Clark, Martin, Bamford, Klotx, Neal,’ James,
Heilman and Aldrich.
J ud icinry—Knott, Harris
House, Ryan, Herbert, New, Hammond. Lapham.
Robins .n. Reed, McKinley, Williams and Willis.
War claims—Bragg, Robertson, Ward, Thom
son, Simouton, .Carpenter, Ferdon, Tyler, Bay
and Russell.
Public cxjicnditures—Finley, Manning, Dav*»,
Tillman, Simouton, Beluhoover, Joyce, Mason
cross, Burrows and
Manufacture—Wise, Beale, Nicholls, Smith,
Richardson, Taylor. Lowe, Hall, Hayes, Ham
mond and McCook.
Foreign affaira-Cox. Nelson, Bucknell, King,
Nicholls, nemdon. Hill, Killinger, Rice, Morton
Robertson aud Ryan.
Tcrritorlra-MuMiw, Craven*, Bouclt, Mailer.
Martin, trott, lluchm&n, Humphrey. Aldrich
Young and Dick.
Revolutionary- pcnaloni—Whitaker, Hland
Cabell, Dibrell, Singleton of Illiuoia, Ryan of
Pennsylvania, Converao, Farr, lUlcl, Fierce and
Gillette.
lit valid mmrfons — Cottloth, Dewitt, Caldwell,
-■•tetter of Indiana, Penoni of Georgia, Ha
Mississippi, Taylor ot Tennessee, sinth
H tdetter ot Indiana, Pemons of Georgia, Hatch
01 Mississippi, Taylor of Tennessee, Smith *
Pennsylvania, Hazleton ot Wisconsin, Davis
Illinois and Updegraffof Ohio.
Railway* and canals—Cabell, Shelley. Kitmnel
Hmmonds, W ise, Osmer, Turner, Hawley, Fisher,
Bluke. Honk and Ford.
Agriculture —Covert, Aiken, Steele, Dibrell,
Henry, Iaetevre, Richmonds, Person*. Hatch
McGowan, Wilber, Valentine. Godscbalk, Ander-
Indian ,
MtJ A^ii’S" 1 ' Krreu ’'
£a^»to^k B ^t n d
o “ ilit ^7r, R ?“’ Jfcnkle, Thomas, Turner,
ffiffer O Br en ’ Dick - Farr . Houk and
Navil ft ®rirs—-Whltthornc, Goode, Morse, Elam,
Davidson, Talbott, O’Brien, Harris, I farmer,
Briggs and Brewer.
mining—^Stevenson, Acklin, Arm-
field, Atherton, Waddell, Klotx, Loring, Mitchell
Umer, Einstein and Campbell. U1 ’
Education and labor—Goode, Willis, Lay Till
art MoUlll.h SaHam tl l ’ l
Departure of the Eighteenth Infantry
Saturday afternoon at three o’clock nine
companies of the 18th United States
fantry, numbering in all about three hun
dred men, who have for the past two years
been quartered at McPherson barracks, left
by special trains over the Western and At
lantic railroad for Milk river, Montana ter
ritory, where they have been ordered to re
port for duty. The distance of the jour
ney upon which they have started is >
teen hundred and sixteen miles. The
troops were loaded on two special trains at
the union passenger depot It took thirty-
five cars of different kinds to hold them
and their baggage.
There will be but one change of cars
made on the entire route from Atlanta to
Bismarck, which will be the terminus of
their journey by rail. This change will
take place at Evansville, Indiana, at which
place the gauge changes and cars cannot be
transferred. Upon arriving at Bismarck, the
troops will take a boat and go up the Mis
souri river a distance of forty miles. They
will then disembark and march a distance of
thirty miles before the end of their journey
is reached. At Chattanooga tlie remaining
company of the regiment joined the com
mand and now the whole regiment of
troops is together. *
We are informed that at some point on
the route the regiment will be reinforced
until its strength will be five hundred men.
This is the number that it is supposed that
the command will attain by the time that
it reaches the end of the journey. A large
majority of the troous, and more especially
the officers, left with great reluctance, and
unusual dilieence was found necessary to — ....
prevent some of the men from deserting. A | flriRht, Herbert, O’Reilly, Foul, Forsyth and y£
few of them seemed anxious to get away. hura -
advance.
J udge Key estimates that the colored pop-
ulation is now about ten per cent, of the
white, taking tlie country over. If this
population was more evenly distributed in
all the states he thinks both races and the
country would be benefited; say fifty per
cent, in the cotton states, twenty-five i*er
cent, in the border states and the rest in the
northern and western states. We would
then have less negro question than now-—at
least it would not lx; scctio al. He savs he
shall watch the workings of the problem in
Kansas with great interest, and hopes a lit
tle moving about of this sort w ill be of ad
vantage to both races
Postmaster-Genera’ ivey, in answer to a
resolution of the senate inquiring why a
paper published here was discriminated
against in the mails as an advertising sheet,
says that while the senate haa the right to
call for any information required to facili
tate legislation, it lias no right to direct him
to give his reasons for complying with the
law, which it is hisduty to execute. He says
that lie has noobjection to saying, however,
that the enforcement of the law in question
devolves U|»on the local postmasters, and
that the rights of tlie paper have been re
ferred to the attorney-general for decision.
“Hopcmi Sign* nt the South'.”
Springfield Republican, rep.
Just now it is too far the fashion for partisan
purposes to berate southern lawlessness, and to
give over the lately rcl»ellious section of tbe coun
try as hopelessly addicted to the practice of as
sassination. The situation is bad enough, but
very far from being hopeless. We have reached
a point in the long process of reconstruction, and
the experiment of assimilating the negro into our
political system somewhat delicate ami critical.
The situation is one that is going to test the domi-
nsnt race in good Ronsc, iu statesmanship, in
philosophy and iu paUcmv. Rich southi m com
munity and state has got to work out its own sal
vation-industrial, social and political. The ne
gro is best off w here he is. The white man
is dependent upon him ns a lal»orer. Tho
two ran best travel together with united
interests, and the only future hope for southern
development lies in such peaceable ind cordial
co-operation, (.tan It be brought about? This is
for the future to solve. Certain li is that the
best southern sentiment accepts the situation In-
teUizenfly. and is grappling aggressively with
focal social dirommizutnm and race oppression.
The New \ ork Nation comments sharxiiv upon
the prevalence of assassination at the south, aud
it but echoes the sentiments which have beeu put
quiteas vigorously by representative journals all
papers. The great journals of any section are
accepted as the mirrrors of public sentiment,
u T <\ . lh V luft derH in the best local
life. This is strikiugly true of southern uews-
pajicrs. These great conservative agencies, all
along the line, are treating the Present situation
in a manner which shows that the best elements
of southern reieiety are at work to repress tho
prevalent lawlessness and help on the general
advancement aiu! thrift «'» - - * -
advancement and thrift What the tone of
southern journalism is aud has l H -en toward tho
° f U,c , *£ ,ur *? 1,01 ful, y realized at tho
north, because of the misrepresentation „f snuth-
c ™, 0 U inl0, > , for Partisan pun*oscs. Tlie render*
of the Republican, indeed, arc treated to tlie cream
of current discussion, south us well as north. It
is selected, too with a generous remembrance of
the many difficulties through which tlie states
south of Mason and Dixon's line, are working
their way to a healthy local sentiment and their
faire. But the republican organs—the New York
.**?*. T ,n< T’ , Zn< i Ic < * ia,| dlc r > )tkpcr and
leir remfederates—laboriously seek to prove that
solid south is synonymous with local rascality
and national harm. For Instance, notice the prom
inence given for partisan purposes to the uttcr-
anccsof the Okolona (Miss.) flutes, which rolls
scce'Sion as a sweet inoivel under Its tongue and
magnifies rebel heroes ami memories. But tho
Vicksburg (Miss.) Herald informs us that tho
8 o! 0 ". I s * fto’^iback organ. Furthermore, it is
edited by an Ohio democrat, who was kicked out
veral Ind1 offices bccauie he was insuffer-
boiulmstir. oid his language is now relmked
to representative journals of the section lio
misrepresents, it is worse than unfair to make
sponsil
Train.
riPiLT 1 **-^^wris the type of what
the southern press is not It is remarkably c
servative in tone, nnh-lr
servative in tone, quick to discern the signs of tlie
times, and fully up to tlie general average of tho
same class of journals iu any part of the union.
Consider what a furious noise was made some
months ago abont tlie danger from southern
claims. It was an idle fear. The leading journals
t only claims irom their own-sec-
tiou, but all claims urged at this distance of time
“ What echo, too, had the New York
resident’s title?
from the v
Sun’s crusade MMC{
Dana was publicly rebuked and reminded
wanted was
quiet and an
that what
not agitation and revolution, bu......... ...
opportunity to rebuild its waste places. The
01 me noure. Tliougl
I Blackburn set himself up as the south's candl
< A? t ^» lhe .. K Y, n f; n \ 1 w, ‘fl*nent of that sections
, U111 proved his fitness for the r
and that it would be unwise p mh* 1
^ ^ —qgUuw,
diefoting what the democratic party
should do. If the southern men have carried off
the lesser loaves and fishes, it is no more than the
north has done in bestowing them where party
support was strongest.
But It is not alone in political matters that tho
southern press has showu u wise restrainL Ills
constantly spurring It* readers on to encourage
industrial enterprise and make life more sacred.
Espdaily has the recent epidemic of murder
***? Promptly improved. From the Richmond
etate, Charleston News and Courier and Atlanta
Constitution on tlie Atlantic sea-board; from
the Louisville Oouricr-Journal and New Orleans
Tirau* and Picayune iu the Mississippi vallev;
from the Galveston News on the farther gulf
coast, and from the lesser lights generally,dim*
risen indignant protest against the great source
bal va tion.
its 0
Kdety h
n—the
ny and
man, McMillan, Baliou. Barlow’, Osmer ilnl’
Aeraam.
Revision of laws—Harris, Clark of Mirsonri
Townsend, Gcddia, Richardson, McMillan, Lowe'
Orth. Thomas, Umer and Gillette. '
Coinage, weight* and measures—Stephen
Vance, Ellis, Bland, VV lllis, Warner, De La Maty
Chaplin, W. A. Wood and Fisher. ^
a* l £ te .? to T V . a 2 ce ’„! 5mith of Georgia, Bachman,
Dwight! Caswell, Ballou and
Public buildings and grounds-Cook, Young,
McKenzie, kimmel, Atherton, Kitchin, Muroh
bcrger° f l0Wa ’ Jor 8 enscn > Btarin, and Altailen
Smlth >Unte ~ HCnr7, MorSC ’ Martln * Boyd and
Miteage-Cobb, Knott, Mills, Chittenden and
Expenditures in the navy department—Towns-
Bead of Illinois, Phelps, KitStin, HulL A
Wood, Lindsey and Nesi.
, Expenditures in the post-office department—
Lad<L Money. Sparks, Poehler, Blake, Valentine
and Bingham.
1 Ex l?:P? iu J rc> , “J he Interior departraentr-Mul-
lor, Whittaker, Clardy, Williams of Alabama.
De La Matyr, Jorgensen and Burrows.
INLAND SPARKS.
The Hon. Alfred A. Burnham, formerly
member of congress from the third district
of Connecticut and ex-speaker of the Con
necticut honse, is dead.
Collector Woodstock, of Nashville, to-
received information that a large il-
distillery had been destroyed in Put
nam county and a number of arrests made.
The fire on Bridge street, Danville, Va.,
this morning, destroyed eight bouses, eight
thousand pounds of tobacco, and some per
sonal property. Loss $8,000.
The supreme court of Rhode Island this
morning rendered a decision making a per
petual injunction restraining the city treas
urer of Newport from paying the cost of a
ball given the officers of a British fleet last
year.
A petition has been presented in the
New Foundland legislature from the united
One of them was heard to remark,
glad to go, as I want a change.
These words had hardly fallen from the
speaker’s lips before they were caught up
by another member of the same company
who remarked by way ofla rejoinder, “Yes,
and before you have your ’change’ as you
call it one week, you will be d-—d glad to
get back to Atlanta.” “You bet he will,”
said another soldier, “we’ll all beglad to get
back; remember, boys, here in Atlanta v
can get plenty of g»K*l beer at five cents _
glass: where we are going there ain’t a glass
*of beer in one hundred miles of the camp.”
This last remark produced much laughter
among a knot of soldiers who were stand
ing near by.
These ami other remarks of a similar
character could be beard coming from the
hundreds of blue coats that were at the
de|>ot waiting for the trains to leave. The
scene at the depot was one of the most
intereating ever witnessed by tbe reporter.
Scores of washerwomen, and some who
were not, were seen going from one point
to another as though they were looking for
some particular soldier.
During their stay a goodly number of the
soldiers had woed and won hosts of the op
posite sex. and their wives were at the train
crying their eyes out at the departure of
their husbands, whom in all probability
they will never see again.
One of their mourners seemed to be only
about half broken-hearted, as she remarked
with much emphasis: “ Well, I know what
11 do—I will get a divorce and marry again
as soon as I get a chance.” With this ut
terance she turned on her heel and left the
As a general thing the soldiers have be
haved themselves most admirably during
their stay in Atlanta, and have given our
people little or no trouble. The officers
and their families made many friends
among the best citizens of Atlanta, and it
is with much regret that we see them leave
us. We hone to have them return to At
lanta at no distant day.
Lieutenant J. E. Sawyer of Battery
informs us that tbe remainder of the artil,
lery. who are to be stationed at Atlanta-
will probably reach here on Monday even’
ing or Tuesday morning The battery from
Savannah will leave for Atlanta to-day. as
also the several batteries from Charleston,
S. C. Tbe regimental band of the 5th ar-
tillery will come with the troops from
Charleston. The permanent headquarters
of the regiment will be located here. We
hear it rumored that the 13th infantry, now
stationed at New Orleans, will probably be
ordered to Atlanta this summer and quar
tered at McPherson barracks.
Sale sf tbe Stanton Honse.
Chattanooga, April 10.—There was a
chancery sale of the Stanton house prop
erty to-day. Frederick Wolffe, of Mont
gomery, Ala., was the purchaser at thirty
thousand dollars.
Expenditure* in the department of Justice—
Levee* oftibe MtoizGlppl—Robertson, Ch.lmerc,
Turner Mjen, Evim, Dunn
B*> ne. Boyd, Caswell aud Prescott
syne, Boyd, Caswell aud Prescott.
- Bjiles-TIic Speaker, Stephens, Blackburn, Gar
field and !■ rye.
Reform in the Civil Service—Hostetler. Cravens.
Honse. Kcm.a, O’Cunuor, flawver, Hammond
Hayes, Hard ton Lutterworth and Richardson '
On state of the law (dating to electoral count
Bit-knell, Hunton, Carlisle, Stephens, Ewing.
Dmnsbery, Dunn, Orth, Updegraff. Van Voorheb
and Yokum.
Ventilation of hail ot hou«e-K!mmel, Covert,
Carlisle, M.cM.hon, atone, Kelley end ltoiximn
Cause* ot the depression of libor - U'rivht,
Dickey, O Counor, Mutch, St *- ■- " B ■
Martin.
On epidemic and contagious diseases—Yonn;
Sherwin, Cowgill and
Y” wuwgious diseases—Young,
Gibaon. Hooker. Goode, Morse, Smith, Updegraff
Van Aernam and McGowan. 6
Printing—Singleton, Wilson and Hayes.
hiHs—Kenna, Coffroth, Ward, Aldrich
and Wilbur.
Library—Geddes, Richmond and Claflin.
Census—Cox. Hooker. Elam, Finley, Colerick
Thompson, IfothweU. Loring, Pierce, fo^ettmid
A vacancy will be created on
commerce, to be filled by the appointment of a
member from the Pacific coast after the Callfor-
T ? e following vacancies exist, to
be filled by appointment from California, Texas
or New York: Two on the committee on educa
tion and labor, one on public lands, one on pub-
licexpenditures, one on military affairs, one on
mines and mining, and one on coinage weights
and measure*.
Special di*p«tch to The ComUtuUon.
\V»*lltxuTO!t, April 10.—I have juet had
1 interview with Mr. Green B. Rauin, the
commissioner of internal revenue, with
respect to the question* that have arisen
in regard to the Georgia four per cent,
bonds. Commissioner Raurn info
that he will decide that the bonds are not
subject to the tax of ten per cent, upon
currency. He will hold that the four per
cents are precisely what they purport to be
and what Georgia issued them for—namely
bonds. 'I have been informed by severitj
treasury officials that thev can see no objec
tion to these new securities and no ground
for any oninion that they are bill* of credit.
Universal surprise is expressed here at the
fact that Georgia is able to float a fourW
cent bond.
Postmaster-General Key thinks the Kan
sas movement of blacks from Mississippi
and Louisiana is not a had thing. He
feels quite sure that good will come from it
to both races. The tendency will be to re
duce the numerical strength of the blacks in
those states until they no longer outnumber
tbe whites, which is desirable. Besidta if
the blacks do well in Kansas, it will make
the nice more independent in tbe cotton
states, for they can at ail times threaten
to leave if not well, or at least fairly
treated. Judge Key thinks it ia dis
astrous for the blacks to outnumber
Governor C’olqnitt.
Waynesboro Expo»dtor.
.. Th p r p »cem* to Ik an organized movement in
°, f r me Political aspirant*
and sorehead* and their sycophants to break
down Governor Colquitt, and bring hi* admlnis-
wienie and disrepute. Ill* piety
and Christian character have even l>cen the sub
ject of ridicule by Home pcnny-a-lincrx. Such
dings are sbrolutcly mean and contemptible. It
I* a matter of congratulation that Georgia’s exec
utive I* a God-fearing man and that hUmany and
responsible duties do not mnkc him forget the
higher claims imposed upon him. Governor Coi-
quitt is human and is liable to err, bnt the people
wi *l never question hi* honesty, integ-
rity and Christian character, his petty maligners
and traducers to the contrary notwithstanding.
That F.xodus,
Chicago Times.
The movement of negroes in the gulf states to
Kansas is simply a movement in the interests of
their extermination. The climate is too cold for
them; the noil is one with which they are not fa-
miliar; they carry with them no capital; the peo
ple of Kansas don't want them to come, and the
result will be that they will die like sheep with
the rot The friend* of the southern negro—as
thev claim—arc the northern republican*. It is
their duty, at tills crisis, to put their hands In
their pockets and help these destitute people,
and also to gtiltle their exodus, no that it will not
result in their extermination.
Why They are Rrlandfer*.
Boston Herald, Ind.
“Leadership in a gift, not a device,” said John
* mu US'* ™ a conclusive reply to all the
foolish things said about confederate brigadiers in
~“Mgrewu They are in congress because they are
_ leading men in the south, and the fact is that
they are generally the roost progressive men. Tho
southern system in slavery times developed a
“nail class of leaders, most of whom were active
V r - J? **»e north, interests are more di-
and leadcndiip is not confined to a few.
r best congressmen, since the v
worst.
N11 in her Two.
Baltimore Gazette.
to'o'-Kia, who spent some
time in Washington recently, has been telling the
newsnapers at home that Senator Gordon, after
Mr. Haye*. is the most influential man in Wash
ington. Mr. Gordon is certainly a man of power
and personal weight, but everybody knows that
w*. 1 Hayes the man who sways destinies in
^* ton r K 1 *!. , ,ife * ,,< 1 happiness in
the hollow of hi* hand is Colonel Wilbcriorec Kav-
and mend. 11 ** 6 ™’ l * ie P rta,idenl "* privy counselor
The nominee ami Democratic Votes.
Montgomery Advertiser.
Any democrat awnmlug to be s “teacher,” who
declare* that if Mr. Tilden oranv other particular
individual i* nominated, he will not yield the
nominee a support, put* himself and his party in
a predicament that patriotic and wise men every-
where must look upon with pity and amazement
-with lunazement that hi* wisdom i* *0 narrow,
and with pity that his patriotism is so puerile.
A Dark Horse Ticket.
New York Star.
Our esteemed cotemporary, the Sun, suggests a
democratic presidential ticket inscribed with the
names of Speaker Randall and Judge Field, of
the supreme court. Such a ticket would bring
victory without question, and If the national con-
ve- tion does as well as till*, we shall have no fear
of the result. .
He Hm«1 the Range.
Washington Post.
n’t know who he meant, but the man who
I out, “Woe! woe to this den of thieves,”
» house gallery the other day was looking
straight at Garfield, Robeson and Venezuela
\ H® seemed to have got the range, at all
its, before “shooting hi* mouth off.”
The Constitution'* Popularity.
Thom&sville Enterprise.
We feel it a duty to nay that The Ati.asta Con
stttution I* the newsiest paper that comet to thi*
office, and there i* such a demand for it that we
have to slip it out at night and carry It home to get
a good chance to read it.
General Toombs Indorsed.
SL Lou in Post-Dispatch.
Toombs, of Georgia, has accepted the invitation
ftbe Texa* state iair to deliver the address next
October at the opening of the fair in Austin. He
is an attractive speaker and as tu triotic a citizen
a* can be found between Cape Cod and the Gold-
Gate.
One Republican Opinion.
Chicago Herald.
Joe Hawley stakes hi* congressional
‘putation on the assertion that the best men in
both houses are ex-confederates.
A Part Neatly .Stated.
Chicago Times.
The green backer in congress U a very little pea
in a mighty big pod. He rattles, and that’s ifl. •
Come to Stay.
Washington Post.
General legislation has arrived and is stopping
1 thccapitol. He brings his summer clothes.
One of the Necessities.
Seuoia Farm and Home.
The truth is. we don’t know how to get along
without The Constitution.